we visited singapore to rendezvous with my brother sam and his wife for the first few days of june. singapore is a remarkably clean and orderly place; kind of a cross between manhattan and celebration, florida, and not necessarily in a good way. while there is a lot to see (including an excellent national museum), we were there for the food: singapore is filled with hawkers’ food courts where you can hop from stall to stall and sample the cuisines of multiple cultures – chinese, malay, indian, indonesian and british. i’d read an article by calvin trillin in a 2007 issue of the new yorker about the food courts and had wanted to go ever since; it was worth the wait.